vm-builder disk partition alignment

Bug #1252837 reported by C Cormier
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Bug Description

vm-builder sets the partition start to sector 63. This is old school and should be updated. The optimal "standard" seems to be sector 2048.

The reason behind this is for block alignment for disks or storage with blocks bigger than 512bytes.

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C Cormier (ccormier) wrote :
description: updated
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